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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4: From the Deserts They Come.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Dayup know that Captain Fremantle must be important?
(a) Because they recognize his picture from the newspaper.
(b) Because the other men salute him.
(c) Because he tells them he is in charge.
(d) Because he is wearing a uniform.

2. How is this carried out?
(a) Sending out patrols into the bush.
(b) Taking Aboriginals as servants.
(c) Building very grand houses.
(d) Picnics, fox-hunts and balls.

3. The Aboriginals at first believed that the white men were 'gengas.' What are gengas?
(a) Gods.
(b) Spirits of the ancestors.
(c) Mighty kings.
(d) Flesh eating monsters.

4. How long is the military outpost there for?
(a) Two weeks.
(b) Twenty years.
(c) Five years.
(d) One year.

5. What do the group have to do in order to adapt to life with white people?
(a) Become Christian.
(b) Wash.
(c) Learn English.
(d) Put clothes on.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the Canning Stock Route?

2. Why are teenage boys sent out into the Law?

3. How do the settlers allocate land?

4. How many wives does Kundilla have?

5. What did the Aboriginal people discover too late?

(see the answer key)

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